Spider in a Tree

Susan Stinson

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Small Beer Press
31 October 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

""Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human.""-Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

""Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities.""-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

""Wonderfully fuses the historic and the imaginative.""-Kenneth Minkema, executive director, Jonathan Edwards Center

Jonathan Edwards is considered America's most brilliant theologian. He was also a slave owner. This is the story of the years he spent preaching in eighteenth century Northampton, Massachusetts.

In his famous sermon ""Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,"" Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards's wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale.

Susan Stinson is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays and was awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach.

By: Susan Stinson
Imprint: Small Beer Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 382g
ISBN: 9781618730695
ISBN 10: 161873069X
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 31 October 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susan Stinson (susanstinson.net) is the author of four novels, including Spider in a Tree and Martha Moody, and a collection of poetry and lyric essays. Her work has appeared in The Public Humanist, The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, Curve, Lambda Literary Review, and The Women's Review of Books. She has taught at Amherst College, been awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, and has received a number of fellowships. An editor and writing coach, she was born in Texas, raised in Colorado, and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Spider in a Tree

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